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MMO's, movies, las vegas, and golf
In one of Lift's most legendary talks, Paul Barnett - creative director at Electronic Arts - explains that the conventional thinking which goes into designing an existing product and simply make it bigger, louder, taller, and crazier doesn't work in the world of online games. There has to be room for new ideas, and it's the person with the ideas who is going to be walking away with the money.Outdoctrination: Society, Children, Technology and Self Organisation in Education
Sugata Mitra is a Professor of Educational Technology at the Newcastle University. He presents about "Outdoctrination: Society, Children, Technology and Self Organisation in Education" at the LIFT07 conference on Thursday, February 8, 2007.The Modern Age of Gaming
Robin is a researcher (studying artificial intelligence) now working for Electonic Arts. She is designing games for the Nintendo Wii - she worked on My Sims - and tells us about user-generated content and the importance of social software in gaming.CERN's 27km Big Bang machine
Brian Cox is Physicist at University of Manchester / CERN. He presents about "CERN's 27km Big Bang machine" at the LIFT07 conference on Friday, February 9, 2007.The Next Nature
Mobile phone cell antennas are being camouflaged as trees and tomatoes are turning square. Technology wants to look like nature, and nature like technology. Mieke Gerritzen is a dutch artist talking about how culture becomes nature.Secrets, lies & the possible perils of truthful technology
Genevieve Bell grew up in Australia, moving between the working class suburbs of Melbourne and Canberra and the Aboriginal communities of Central and Northern Australia. She has a PhD in anthropology and works as Director of User Experience within Intel’s Digital Home Group. There she manages an inter-disciplinary team of social scientists, interaction designers and human factors engineers.Evolution of the mobile communication ecosystem
Francesco Cara, a design strategist at Nokia with a psychology background, looks at the evolution of mobile communication ecosystems.Google Open Social
Kevin Marks of Google talks about Open Social, a framework to build cross-site social apps and fight against social network fatigue and incompatibilities.Implant technology to enhance human abilities
In this presentation Kevin Warwick takes a look at four different mergers involving the use of implant technology and micro electrode arrays, like technology for identifying and tracking humans, robots with biological brains, deep brain stimulation for therapeutic purposes and neural implants to enhance human abilities.Let ALL things be connected
Why, after 20 years spent building online virtual worlds on the French minitel, then the Internet, Rafi Haladjian realized in 2003 that time had come to jump out of the screen and take the physical world as the new frontier. How Violet, the company he co-founded decided to start connecting everything, to get out of the lab and make actual products with a Darwinian view of the advent of ubiquitous computing...and why among all things he is convinced that the Internet of Things should start with a Rabbit.Nine trends shaping the future of social interactions
Jan Chipchase is a researcher for Nokia Design. He details the nine trends he thinks will shape the future of social interactions, trends he identified through the extensive field work he and his team are conducting around the world. Jan's work shows how the digital devices are creating new practices and usages by becoming smaller and smaller, opening up a new design space for the mobile industry.Digital Rights Management
Cory Doctorow is an activist, a writer, a blogger, a public speaker, and a technology person. He speaks about "Digital Rights Management" at LIFT06.Open-source in Asia
Gen Kanai is the head of Mozilla in Japan. He talks about open source in Asia, and the perception that Asia is contributing less to open source projects than other parts of the world.The Hedonistic Company
How to be a socialistic-capitalist firm and turn your company into a "hedonistic company": the seven rules of working together professionally and still stay friends.Spimes and the future of artifacts
Bruce Sterling is a writer and visionary. He speaks about "Spimes and the future of artifacts" at the LIFT06 conference.A look at 2008, the "boring" year ahead
In the LIFT08 opening keynote, science fiction writer Bruce Sterling looked in his rear mirror to see the near future, and predicts a boring 2008.What can we learn by inviting people to be designers?
Younghee Jung talks about how Nokia explores the different usages of their mobile phones by customers to gain valuable insight on future products design.Industrial Products And Ubiquity
Bruce Sterling's presentation at LIFT evening Korea on Industrial Products And Ubiquity. Bruce talks about sustainable design, recycling, total life-cycle management, tags, radio-frequency identity, search engines, locative media, computer fabricators, industrial design, user records, metadata. web commerce and ubiquitous computing in the service of sustainability.What is the climate of the 21st century going to be like?
Notes from Bruno Giussani's LunchOverIP
Andy Reisinger is a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC - wikipedia page) that won -- collectively -- the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize alongside Al Gore for their work on scientifically assessing the state of the Earth's climate. He's actually a very important member of the group, because he has coordinated the small group writing and editing the summaries of the reports -- the documents that you've read about in the press and that have landed on governmental desks all over the world.Working in a wired world
Euan Semple is one of the most respected specialist of social software. He speaks about "working in a wired world" at LIFT06.Collective Intelligence and creativity
Jaewoong Lee is Founder and CEO at Daum Communications Corp. He presents about "Collective Intelligence and Collaborative Creativity : What do we need more?" at the LIFT07 conference on Friday, February 9, 2007.Virtual environments and social justice
Jonathan Cabiria talks about relationships in virtual environments and social justice. He explores how platforms such as Second Life can be a recommended activity for marginalized people, especially if they suffer from issues such as loneliness, depression, isolation, pessimism and/or low self-esteem.Mobile in Asia
Marc spends his time between academic work (China and technology), consulting (telecommunication) and pro bono activities. He talks about "Mobile In Asia" and explains how, for the first time in history, a technology is more used in the developing world than in the developed world.Introducing Going-solo
Stephanie Booth presents Going Solo, a conference for independent professionals happening on May 16th, 2008 in Lausanne.Participating in the new business conversation
Robert Scoble is a famous blogger and podcaster on scobleizer.com. He speaks about "Participating in the new business conversation", one of the best ever LIFT presentations. Presentation Zen called this talk "a good example of a more human, more engaging approach to a presentation".Panel: User/Citizen centered society
Will new technologies give power back to the individual? What are the implications for our society? A panel discussion with Robert Scoble (Vice President of Media Development, Podtech), Beth Krasna (Independent Board Member), Thierry Crouzet (Writer, bonWeb), Derek Powazek (founder, JPG Magazine), moderated by Bruno Giussani.Getting from here to there: ethnography, design, privacy, and location
Ethnographic research is increasingly figured as a foundation for design practice, but the questions of just how these two approaches should be combined remain largely unanswered. In particular, designers often turn to ethnographic work more for marketing data than for cultural understandings. Drawing on some recent studies of mobility and privacy, I will outline an alternative approach that attempts to take ethnography seriously.Internet and the ordinary people's revolution
Xavier Comtesse is the director of the Swiss Think Tank Avenir Suisse. He talks about "Internet and the ordinary people's revolution".Wikipedia: a social innovation?
Florence Devouard is the chairwoman of Wikimedia, the foundation behind Wikipedia. She speaks on "Wikipedia: a social innovation?" at the LIFT07 conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on February 8, 2007.Media art: making it or faking it?
Regine is the lady behind we-make-money-not-art.com. She speaks about "Media art: making it or faking it?"Space Solar Power
Capturing Solar Energy in orbit and beaming it down to Earth in a 24 hours a day controlled process, in combination with hydrogen technology, apppears as one of the global, clean and sustainable solutions to replace fossil fuels. The application is expected to be operational in 30 years from now, and technological development is already underway.Everyware: Further down the rabbit hole
Adam Greenfield is Principal at Studies and Observations NYC. He presents about "Everyware: Further down the rabbit hole" at the LIFT07 conference on Thursday, February 8, 2007.Internet in society
Bruno Giussani opens the LIFT06 conference with a keynote speech about the current state of the impact of the Internet on our society. Bruno is a writer and commentator and the Producer of the TEDGLOBAL conference.The read/write city
Adam opening opened the conference with a great talk about how cities are now becoming read/write environments rather than de-socialized zones with everybody isolated in a tech bubble (iPod, mobile phone). An energetic, visual journey in tomorrow's urban environments.Global Microbrands
Hugh Macleod is a european guru of online, viral and blog based marketing. He speaks on "Global Microbrands" at LIFT06.From distributed computing to distributed thinking
François Grey is the head of IT Communications at the CERN, the web's birthplace. In his talk, he discusses the profound implications of citizen cyberscience for the public understanding of science, and for scientists' understanding of the public.Consumerism vs. Activism
David Galipeau has been involved with the internet since it's inception. Having worked on DARPA and the EU Commission Framework IV projects, he has developed an interested in learning behaviors, knowledge management and communication channel strategy and integration models. He is interested in how information and communication technology (ICTs) can be used to modify society and organizational behavior. David speaks about "Consumerism vs. Activism" at the LIFT06 conference.The social network of the future
Pierre Bellanger talks about the future of social networks. As the founder and owner of Europe's largest site of such a kind (and the 17th most visited site on earth), he has a very interesting vision on what directions these tools will take, and hints at a future made of instant communication and mobile.LIFT07 conference wrap-up
Daniel Kaplan is the CEO of the FING (Next-Generation Internet Foundation), a French think tank. He wraps up the LIFT07 conference on Friday, February 9, 2007.Web2.0 mashups and human rights
Helena Suarez and Daniel McQuillan of Amnesty International present about "Web2.0 mashups and human rights" at the LIFT06 conference.Literacy, Communication & Design
Jan Chipchase is Principal Scientist at Nokia Research Center. He presents about "Literacy, Communication & Design" at the LIFT07 conference on Thursday, February 8, 2007.The Luminous Bath: our new volumetric medium
Ben Cerveny is Director at Playground Foundation. He presents about "The Luminous Bath: our new volumetric medium" at the LIFT07 conference on Thursday, February 8, 2007.Using social software to encourage sustainable development
Tom Taylor works as a developer/tech consultant for Headshift, a London based company who build and consult on social software applications. He presents on the subject of using social software to encourage sustainable development.The Estonian Cyberwar
American journalist and writer Bruce Sterling talks about the Estonian Cyberwar, sharing his thoughts on who might be behind the attacks, and the potential future of a world were groups of hackery can take down entire states.Social = Me First
Stowe Boyd is CEO at Blue Whale Labs. He presents about "Social = Me First" at the LIFT07 conference on Thursday, February 8, 2007.Mobiles and the urban poor
Bruce Sterling, science-fiction and tech journalist - and Lift's "big thinker in residence" - talks about the implications of money digitization. His though-provoking presentation deals with how virtual money systems are the financial services for the new urban poor. "When you are working on cell phones, when you are working on the web, when you are working on electronic money and payment systems, you need to think: What if my user is a North-Korean" How would I do this differently if I knew my user was from Pyongyang, that his regime had collapsed, that his economy had collapsed, he was completely bewildered, and he had never seen a cell phone or a computer in his life, and I intended to make him a productive and happy fellow citizen in ten years, what kind of technology would I give that person, what kind of trading system, economic system?”Collective Intelligence inside the enterprise
Lee Bryant is Director at Headshift. He presents about "Collective Intelligence inside the enterprise" at the LIFT07 conference on Thursday, February 8, 2007.Whisher
Ferran Moreno introduces Wisher (www.whisher.com), a software application that helps you get free WiFi access all around the world and offers a range of tools and social services that will take your wireless experience to a new level.Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control
Nathan Eagle is Research Scientist at MIT. He presents about "Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control" at the LIFT07 conference on Thursday, February 8, 2007.Panel discussion: Technological overload
A panel discussion on Technological overload, with Stefana Broadbent (Swisscom Innovations), Fred Mast (University of Lausanne) and Nada Kakabadse (Professor at Northampton Business School), moderated by Matthias Luefkens.Converting visitors into buyers
David Sadigh, founder of the Geneva-based IC-Agency, shows us how organizations can focus on user retention rather than user acquisition to boost traffic.Entrepreneur - a messy mind
Bernino Lind is a Danish entrepreneur, most recently at a company called Aresa which produces a grass that changes color when it grows on landmines. He presents about "Entrepreneur - a messy mind" at the LIFT07 conference on Thursday, February 8, 2007.Open-ended play in Habbo Hotel
Sampo Karjalainen is Chief Creative Officer at Sulake Corporation. He presents about "Open-ended play in Habbo" at the LIFT07 conference on Thursday, February 8, 2007.How social networks changed everyday life
Heewon Kim addresses the trends in web usage in South Korea, and focuses in particular on how teenagers use social software in the world's most wired country.Panel discussion: Facing the digital divide - Bringing it home
One billion users on the Internet. It's changing the world, but six billion people are left behind! A panel discussion with Sugata Mitra (Professor of Educational Technology, Newcastle University), Nathan Eagle (Research Scientist, MIT), Pukul Rana (British Council) and Lara Srivastava (Senior Policy Analyst at International Telecommunication Union), moderated by David Galipeau.
LIFT08 wrap up
Bill Cockayne wraps up the 2008 edition of LIFT, offering his observations and insights on a rich edition.How to make Innovation a sustained reality?
Catherine Simon is a consulting Partner at Business Resonance. A former Atari and Electronic Arts exec, she explains "How to make Innovation a sustained reality in your firm" at the LIFT07 conference on Friday, February 9, 2007.LIFT Evening Seoul 2007 press release
Lan Kyoung Hong reads the Korean press release announcing the LIFT events in Seoul. Free Korean lessons in video!Panel discussion: The Economics of creation
How to make a living from creative work in the peer to peer and Youtube era? A discussion with Zhang Ga, Rodrigo Sepulveda Schulz, John Buckman and Chappatte, moderated by Philippe Mottaz.Embracing the real world's messiness
Fabien Girardin, Researcher at the Pompeu Fabra University, talks about "Embracing the real world's messiness".Communication technologies and new forms of social interaction
Lara Srivastava is a Senior Policy Analyst at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). She presents about "Communication technologies and new forms of social interaction" at the LIFT07 conference on Thursday, February 8, 2007.Jumping jack flash - New forms of interactions
Jan-Christoph Zoels is Director of User Experience Design at Experientia. He presents about "Jumping jack flash - new forms of interactions" at the LIFT07 conference on Thursday, February 8, 2007.When 1st Life Meets 2nd Life
Julian Bleecker is Professor at the University of Southern California and Researcher at the Near Future Laboratory. He presents about "When 1st Life Meets 2nd Life" at the LIFT07 conference on Thursday, February 8, 2007.Going virtual in proportion to being actual
Sister Judith Zoebelein is Editorial director at Internet Office of the Holy See. She presents about "Community on the Net: Going virtual in proportion to being actual" at the LIFT07 conference on Thursday, February 8, 2007.Towards a society of cyborgs?
Daniela Cerqui is an anthropologist at University of Lausanne. She presents about "Towards a society of cyborgs?" at the LIFT07 conference on Thursday, February 8, 2007.Trying to implement enterprise collaboration?
Stéphane Cheikh is the Manager of Online Tools and Knowledge Management at SITA. He speaks about "trying to implement enterprise collaboration?".
Massaging the medium
Ellen Wallace is the Editor of GenevaLunch. She speaks about "Massaging the medium".Contemporary space(s)
Christophe Guignard is Architect at fabric | ch. He presents about "Contemporary space(s)" at the LIFT07 conference on Thursday, February 8, 2007.Industrial Ecology - the future of hyperindustrial economy
Suren Erkman is the director of the Institute for Communication and Analysis of Science and Technology. He presents about "Industrial Ecology - the future of hyperindustrial economy" at the LIFT07 conference on Thursday, February 8, 2007.Media 2.0
Pierre Chappaz is co-CEO of Netvibes and chairman of Wikio. He presents about "Media 2.0" at the LIFT07 conference on Thursday, February 8, 2007.Sensor Networks: from the lab to the supermarket?
Jacques Panchard is Researcher at EPFL. He presents about "Sensor Networks: from the lab to the supermarket?" at the LIFT07 conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on Thursday, February 8, 2007.Bankers can be bloggers too...
Colin Henderson is a Banker at Bankwatch Consulting. He presents about "Bankers can be bloggers too..." on Thursday, February 8, 2007.Beyond robotics
Frederic Kaplan is a researcher at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL). He presents about "Beyond robotics" at the LIFT07 conference on Thursday, February 8, 2007.What kind of Humanity do we want?
Paola Ghillani is Founder & President at Paola Ghillani & Friends Ltd.. She presents about "What kind of Humanity do we want?" at the LIFT07 conference on Thursday, February 8, 2007.Work environments for the knowledge age
Presentation on the "Work Environments for the Knowledge Age" during the Open Stage sessions during LIFT07.Foresight and Innovation
William Cockayne's ongoing research dissolves the socially constructed membrane used to separate "real" and "virtual" lives. His findings indicate that the concepts we hold about our relationship with mediated social environments may need to be re-evaluated.17 months and 14'000 km away from technology
Swiss adventurer Sarah Marquis, who travels by foot around Europe, Australia and America, explains what happen when you reconnect with nature and try to be autonomous, finding water, getting some electrical energy, collecting food were some of the topics discussed during her presentation. She spoke during the WattWatt special session on sustainable development.The long here, the big now
Adam Greenfield, head of design director at Nokia, talks about the emotional aspects of living in a networked city. What happens when the choices of action in the city are not only physical, but also influenced by an invisible overlay of networked information?Play and mobility
Matt Jones, designer at Nokia, speaks about the opportunities to design mobile games based on physical activities, motions and mobility.
Because of a technical issue, the sound starts around 13 minutes. Sorry Matt, and sorry to you all for that. That speech - voted one of the top 5 talk at Lift06 - is worth watching even if it is only for the final 10 minutes that have sound!
Do biologists dream of robotic art?
Régine Debatty (we-make-money-not-art.com) and France Cadet discuss about "do biologists dream of robotic art?" at the LIFT07 conference on Thursday, February 8, 2007.The luck of seven
Noel Hidalgo talks about "the luck of seven", a tour of the world he started On 7-7-7 which took him through the 7 continents, visiting the 7 wonders of the world in 7 months.Monetization of the mobile Internet
David Marcus, serial entrepreneur now founder and CEO of Zong, talks about the new business models created by mobile channels.From Nespresso to Monodor, the story of an inventor
Eric Favre patented the Nespresso process in 1978, the first step of the amazing story of an inventor turning his idea into one of the world's most successful product.Robotics in the leisure industry
Bruno Bonnell, founder and former CEO of Infogrames, discusses the implications and opportunities of robotics in the leisure industry.Foresight tools and perspectives
Scott Smith, founder of foresight firm Changeist, explains that his job is about "helping people see change clearly" and offers seven tips of foresight like "understanding the role of values" or "having a view, not an ideology".Hardcore nonsense, the story of a Serbian blogger
Back in the nineties, during the darkest moments of the Milosevic regime, when every freedom of expression was suffocated by blaring nationalist propaganda, the dissident founders of the legendary B92 radio, driven to bold desperation, decided that their line of work would have to become "hardcore nonsense."The Dan Dubno's gadget show
Commenting on a table full of electronic stuff, five times Emmy Award winner Dan "Mr. Gadget" Dubno gives a quick and funny overview of green devices such as solar powered battery chargers, water purifying pipes, star identifying gazing systems, GPS devices with or without cameras, and so on. He offers a refreshing perspective on gadget curiosity at the WattWatt special session on sustainable development.WattWatt
Bill Thomson and Philippa Martin-King introduce WattWatt, an online community for individuals interested in electrical energy efficiency.How innovative projects can transform education
Kushtrim Xhakli works at the IPKO Institute in Kosovo. He speaks about how innovative projects can transform education.Building online worlds (KO)
Jake Song - a superstar yet down to earth and open Korean programmer - shared his long experience of building online worlds, first in 2D (Lineage, Ultima Online) then in 3D (Lineage 2, World of Warcraft). His talk resembled a how-to build the perfect virtual world, and my favorite slide was the one that said "try to build a weird enough world so users feel like they are somewhere else, but simple enough that people can still use common sense". This talk was given in Korean and translated live in English for the conference participants. Unfortunately we could not record the English audio.Urban mobile multiplayer gaming
Jury Hahn is the co-founder of MegaPhone, a gaming company based in New York which makes real-time multi-player games on cell phones. Jury explains the potential of mobile gaming, and how phones can allow rich public interactions. She then demos MegaPhone's gaming platform and Lift participants go wild and play against one other :)Enabling Emergent Innovation
The fascinating aspect of “real” radical innovations does not primarily lie in their manifestations as entirely new services or products; what is of interest are rather the new forms and processes of knowledge creation having led to these manifestations.
Sustainability and mobile phone design
At Lift Asia 08 designer Raphaël Grignani explained how sustainability can be taken into account in the design of mobile phones. How to avoid wasting energy? How to recycle material to create mobile devices? How to encourage people to keep things longer? Raphael discusses these questions and shows the "Homegrown" project Nokia Design conducted recently: new designs to automatically switch off the charger after the phone is charged, creating a culture of "caring" among phone users, and turning material waste into beautiful mobile phones.
Bringing a robot to every home
Speecys robotics' Tomoaki Kasuga, a Japanese inventor who has been working on bringing robots to the living rooms of the world for more than fifteen years, showcases his latest creation: a humanoid-shaped robot connected to the Internet. The SPC-101C is part of a whole new botcasting ecosystem (think iTunes for robots) and shows how the expressiveness of movements and the quality of manufacturing are a very important component of human-robot interactions.
The digital nomads
Mobile phone visionary, Christian Lindholm, now Partner and Director at Fjord, focuses on digital nomads and the lessons we can draw from them. His study of global traveling users indeed reveal the "pain points" of mobile user experience: battery-life as a constant worrying issue, data-roaming cost that restrain demand, the importance of laptop compared to smart phones, etc. His talk also tackle why this is important for designing futures mobile services.
Casual gaming
Guy Vardi from Oberon Media talks about casual games, an emerging part of the gaming industry that widely differs from the cliche we usually have on gamers and games.LIFT Experience 2008
Discover the LIFT experience, a series of activities inviting LIFTers to get together, create and share.Architecture for a denser world (KO)
Yoo Suk Yeon is showing what she is doing as both an architect and a researcher, trying to build physical spaces for a population that is getting more and more connected and virtual everyday. She had the most beautiful and intriguing slides we have seen in a while! Yoo Suk talks in both Korean and English.Social media creates open education
Ewan McIntosh is the National Adviser for Learning and Teaching Scotland, the education agency responsible for curriculum development. He talks about how social media creates open education.Timelapse video: Lift08 afternoon break
Michael Scholl made an amazing series of timelapse videos. Here is what happens during the last day break inside the main room.LIFT07 overview
A six minutes clip that captures the ambiance of the two days of conference in Geneva, Switzerland.The importance of social networking and conversations
During the LIFT08 open stage, Matt Colebourne of coComment talks about The importance of social networking and conversations are having for companies and bloggers.Timelapse video: Lift08 break
Michael Scholl made an amazing series of timelapse videos. Here is what happens during the breaks!Changing Innovation
Catherine is the Director of Counterpoint, the British Council’s cultural relations think tank. A former Director of Demos, she is a regular commentator on identity politics in the UK and Europe.Open public data and public transport in Rennes (FR)
In charge of ICT for the city of Rennes I successively deployed websites, extranets and multimedia power of information before developing numerous experiments related to the concept of augmented territory with a target of services to residents. Chargé de mission TIC à la ville de Rennes j'ai successivement déployé des sites web, des supports multimédia et des extranets d'alimentation d'information avant de développer de nombreuses expérimentations en rapport avec la notion de territoire "augmenté" avec un objectif de services aux habitants.
The Future of Social World
Nexon CEO Joonmo Kwon describes the evolution of video gaming through examples from his company, which produces some of the world's most popular online multiplayer games. Joonmo shows how the Web and the mobile phone platforms changed playing practices. He also discusses the renewal of business models in this field and the role of game designers to leverage their creativity to come up with original products.Soft Infrastructure Superpowers
Dan Hill, from urban engineering firm Arup, revisits the past vision of the city of the future and shows they turned out differently. He discusses the important interplay between urban soft infrastructure (people, networks, culture, society, civic relationships) and hard infrastructure. Which leads him to the role of design thinking in developing this new layer information/services based on personal informatics.Scientific fiction
The relationship between science-fiction and design is rich and pretty straight-forward, as explained by UK designer Matt Webb. Starting from examples of believable "scientific fiction", he describes how he implements this sort of thinking into a design process to create original prototypes.Creative communities (FR)
Soh Yeong Roh, director from Art Center Nabi in Seoul, gives her perspective the importance of spirituality and art as a way to question the values of our technophile culture. Based on her experience and a strong south-asian flavor, she shows how art can create "creative communities" that can work as engine for social development (socio-cultural-economic) for our knowledge based society.Key lemon
At the swiss start-ups pitch presentation, Gilles Florey from Key Lemon presented his product: an easy-to-use face- and speech-recognition software that can be used through a normal webcamChanging Things
Changing Things (2) Fab Labs, towards decentralized design and production of material products. Mike Kuniavsky researches, designs and writes about people's experiences at the intersection of technology and everyday life. Companies and universities around the world use his 2003 book, "Observing the User Experience," to understand and teach techniques that bring the design of products closer to the people who use them.The V*** project
Jean-François was a member of the original CERN team that invented the WWW a few years ago. He presents his new project, the vizta.com website.Design and sustainability
John Thackara, director of Doors of Perception, gives a provocative talk about the role of design in finding solutions to the ecological crisis. After inviting us to avoid terms such as "future" or "sustainable" as they maintain a certain distance to the problem we face, he shows a rich set of projects he participated in. He makes the important point that the resources to be put in place already exist and that they might not necessitates complex technological developments.Metromantics
Frank Beau, an independent researcher specialized in new media, talks about the "Metromantics" project. He basially describes the findings of a study of internet messages about romantic encounters in Paris' metro and show the sociological implications of such behaviors.Is there such a thing as Government 2.0? (FR)
Is there such a thing as Government 2.0? Olivier Glassey examines to what extent the notion of a "Government 2.0" is valid or only a buzzword. He uncovers thepotential transformations hiding behind it and question whether "2.0" really applies to government.RFID and Security (FR)
Melanie Rieback, an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, gives an overview of the security and privacy issues concerning Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags. As a a "white hat hacker", she showed how she was able to break RFID systems in order to show to other people how to fix them.Considering how digital culture enables a multiplicity of knowledges (FR)
What would a diverse, complex world brain look like? Considering how digital culture and enable a multiplicity of knowledges. Ramesh Srinivasan, an Assistant Professor at the University of California Los Angeles, speaks about the importance of cultural differences in knowledge production and technology design. Through various stories, he shows the differences in cultural appropriation and the inherent creativity of people in adpating technologies to the uses that benefit them best.Conditional Future
Rob van Kranenburg is an innovation and media theorist involved with negociability strategies of new technologies and artistic practice, predominantly ubicomp and RFID, the relationship between the formal and informal in cultural and economic policy, and the requirements for a sustainable cultural economy.LiftCast interview
Yun Jongsoo is the representative of Creative Commons in Korea. He explains why he came to Lift Asia 2009.Wrapping up Lift10 from a social scientist's viewpoint (FR)
Professor Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Professeur EPFLRich data visualization
Stamen Director Eric Rodenbeck shows a less known part of the Web in the shadow of social media frenziness: rich data visualization. At his studio, Eric and his team work with flows of data (from the internet and the real world) and represent them so that people better engage with the phenomena they represent. In his talk, he demonstrates how the Web can be enriched by visualization opportunities and presents various examples along this line of research.
Is there such a thing as Government 2.0?
Olivier Glassey examines to what extent the notion of a "Government 2.0" is valid or only a buzzword. He uncovers thepotential transformations hiding behind it and question whether "2.0" really applies to government.Gunter Pauli on Biomimetism
Gunter Pauli, from the "Zero Emissions Research Initiative" gives a vibrant speech about how nature provides an important model to find solutions to the ecological crisis. His call for action is followed by disruptive and inspiring examples ranging from battery-less devices to biomimetism.Sociogeek (FR)
Sociogeek: How do you expose yourself online? How do you choose your online friends? Another kind of online survey Daniel Kaplan, CEO of French think tank FING, discuss the results of an on-line survey which aimed at investigating the way people expose themselves online. Are we being too candid about ourselves when online? Are we as transparent as we pretend to be? What strategies do we follow in order to maximize the range and efficiency of our online social networks? And how do we select new online "friends"? Does online networking lower current social barriers?Secu4
At the swiss start-ups pitch presentation, Ralph Rimet from Secu4 showed his product, a protection system for valuables, based on a small bluetooth card, connected with a cell phone.Changing Innovation
Changing Innovation (1)- The end of IT. Martin Duval is the fonder and CEO of Bluenove, which develops open innovation programs and implements sustainable change through open and collaborative innovation.Changing the Planet
Frank Kresin is Programme Manager at the Waag Society. His interest and expertise is in developing solutions for societal problems, programme management, technology and standards of e-learning, broadband based services, social software and open content.Building online worlds (KO)
Jake Song - a superstar yet down to earth and open Korean programmer - shared his long experience of building online worlds, first in 2D (Lineage, Ultima Online) then in 3D (Lineage 2, World of Warcraft). His talk resembled a how-to build the perfect virtual world, and my favorite slide was the one that said "try to build a weird enough world so users feel like they are somewhere else, but simple enough that people can still use common sense".The Twentieth Century was wrong
Lee Bryant describes to what extent we reach a new culture ecosystem echoes with old traditions of trade, business and socialisation while the Twentieth century was all about mass market and mass production.Sarah Marquis' adventures (FR)
Swiss adventurer Sarah Marquis gives an impromptu account of her experience when walking through continents such as Australia or South America. She takes the Lift audience on a trip to explain her whole experience "away from home" and how she achieved it technically speaking in terms of food consumption or navigation.Soft Infrastructure Superpowers (FR)
Dan Hill, from urban engineering firm Arup, revisits the past vision of the city of the future and shows they turned out differently. He discusses the important interplay between urban soft infrastructure (people, networks, culture, society, civic relationships) and hard infrastructure. Which leads him to the role of design thinking in developing this new layer information/services based on personal informatics.Lifestyle Experiments (FR)
Lifestyle Experiments and the Crisis of Agency Working at the crossroads of contemporary art, science, and engineering, Natalie Jeremijenko shows various projects of hers related with environmental issues. Each of them exemplifies a peculiar aspect of her approach that aims at addressing the transformative potential of new technologies in unexpected ways.LiftCast interview
As Web entrepreneur (from Infonet Digital Company), Richard explains why he attended this Lift Asia 2009 conference. He also gives us some tips for successful business in Korea.Free our data initiative
How can open public data become reality? The "Free our data" initiative. Michael Cross has worked as a journalist on seven continents. Nowadays he spends most of his time in the UK, exploring the intimate labyrinths of government IT and information policy. He runs Free Our Data, a campaign for free public access to data about the UK and its citizen.Is it a cashless future?
David Birch, director at Consult Hyperion is a specialist of electronic business and banking. In his presentation, he gives his perspective on the future of digital currency by addressing the disadvantage of cash, the raising importance of cell phone services (especially in developing countries) and its benefits.The Sensable City
Carlo Ratti, director of the Senseable City Lab at MIT, shows various projects he and his lab conducted around the theme of sensed data (mobile phone, flickr pictures) and how they allow to reveal new information layer on top of urban space and or lead to new experience for citizens.The Recurring Failure of Holy Grails
Lift conference editorial director Nicolas Nova revisits technological failures from the past ranging from the videophone to the intelligent fridge. He then describes the reasons behind them and shows that failures can be turned into successes as shown by the videophone, which has now resurfaced on platforms such as Skype.The Mozilla Project (FR)
The Mozilla Project: Core Values of a 230 Million Person World Wide Social Network Chris Hofmann, from Mozilla how to combine the open-source values, strong communities, passion and an open approach for building a software such as Firefox.
Changing Innovation
Changing Innovation - The end of IT. As a consultant and a teacher, Marc Giget is one of France's leading voices on innovation. The "Innovation Tuesdays" he has created at Paris' National Center for Arts and Crafts (Cnam) have become the gathering place for big and small innovators, students and researchers looking for new ideas, case studies and inspiration.Changing Things
Bruce Sterling is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his seminal work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which defined the cyberpunk genre.Enjoy the chaos
Henriette is an online community specialist. She talks about how we should all enjoy the chaos.Creative communities
Soh Yeong Roh, director from Art Center Nabi in Seoul, gives her perspective the importance of spirituality and art as a way to question the values of our technophile culture. Based on her experience and a strong south-asian flavor, she shows how art can create "creative communities" that can work as engine for social development (socio-cultural-economic) for our knowledge based society.The Future of Fake
Fake products are certainly an important trend from the last twenty years. Trendbüro analyst Jörg Jelden describes why fakes are so successful and more importantly what they do differently as well what brands can learn from the fake industry.The Sensable City (FR)
Carlo Ratti, director of the Senseable City Lab at MIT, shows various projects he and his lab conducted around the theme of sensed data (mobile phone, flickr pictures) and how they allow to reveal new information layer on top of urban space and or lead to new experience for citizens.From the Jurassic Era of the Internet to its Futures (FR)
From the Jurassic Era of the Internet to its Futures IP protocol inventor Vinton Cerf, who is now Vice President and Internet Evangelist at Google gave the concluding talk at Lift 09. After a quick recap of the history of the Internet, he basically gives an enthusiastic tour of its current limits (bitrot, IP address shortage) as well projects about its evolution, such as interplanetary internet though satellites.Changing Innovation (2) – Innovating with the non-innovators
Douglas Irving Repetto is an artist and teacher. His work, including sculpture, installation, performance, recordings, and software is presented internationally. He is the founder of Dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity, organism, mailing list and website.LiftCast interview Olivier Mouroux (FR)
Olivier Mouroux, co-fondateur de Asiance.com, une agence "facilitatrice" pour vous établir en Corée et en Asie. C'est également une agence de pub digitale bien établie ici. Présence à Lift et comment s'installer ici en Corée sont les principaux thèmes de cette interview.Knowledge and data
Quelles implications pour l'émergence des connaissances à partir d'immenses gisements de données?Beyond the Browser
After a quick introduction of the event, Lift founder Laurent Haug, joined on stage by Daum's founder Jaewoong Lee gives an overview of the Lift Asia 08 conference. He briefly addresses the topic choice and describe the profile of the speakers.Learning to play with Tomorrow
Anab Jain, who is an independent designer and film maker from India, talks about "design futurescaping", which is using design methods like storytelling, experience prototyping, making scenarios tangible, and talking to people on a daily basis, to inspire and influence prototypes for the near future.Changing ourselves, not the Planet
Dennis Pamlin, who is Global Policy Advisor for the WWF, introduces the ecological challenges we face and contrast them with most of the technological progresses. His talk delineates a set of filters to understand how to judge innovation on conjunction with the long-term consequences they might have on the planet.Reinventing the personal computer (FR)
Frederic Kaplan, a researcher and robot designer from the Swiss Institute of Technology (Lausanne) talks about the need to invent new kind of computer interfaces adapted to more causal situations,without mouse and keyboard that one can use while continuing doing other thinks.Changing the Planet
Elizabeth Goodman’s writing, design and research focus on the intersections of technology, the social sciences, and interaction design. Currently a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Information, Elizabeth studies the relationship between mobile technologies and the experience of place.Initial and necessary challenge: "Technology & Society: Know your History!"
Dominique Pestre, historian of science, has worked on the relationship between physics and technology in the XXth century. Part of his work is also dedicated to understanding the heritage of the war on scientific methods such as game theory, system analysis, operative research.Hacking industrial machinery to design desirable objects (FR)
Hacker les machines industrielles pour concevoir des objets désirablesInteractive Cities
Jeffrey Huang, professor at the Media and Design Lab (Swiss Institute of Technology, Lausanne) addresses the merging of the digital and the physical in the context of near future cities. Through different projects he conducted, he exemplifies how interactive technologies can transform our physical environment to foster better communities.Urban Mobs: How to visualize the cell phone activity in cities?
How to visualize the cell phone activity in cities? Stéphane Distinguin, CEO of Faber Novel, describes the results from "Urban Mobs". This project, conducted with Orange aimed at studying crowd communication activities and paint a “ popular emotion cartography through mobile phone tracking.Design Thinking
Fabio Sergio, Design and User experience strategist and creative director at frog design, focuses his presentation on Design Thinking and its role in creating habitable and desirable futures. He shows various examples to explain how people-centred design goes beyond usage or consumption and should be about culture and seeing people how people react to things within their own culture.Enchanted Objects (FR)
Enchanted Objects - how fiction foreshadows innovation David Rose, who is a serial entrepreneur and a lecturer at MIT, shows how human beings have persistent needs and wishes that they carry through time. For each of these needs, he presents various prototypes and products to demonstrate how design can lead to "enchanted objects" by fulfilling them.Design Provocations (FR)
Clive van Heerden, creative director of Philips ‘Design Probes‘ program, explains their research methods based on design provocations. Through different examples such as skin tatoos, new textiles forms he shows how these "probes" are employed to understand people’s reactions and therefore better understand the future lifestyle in 2020/30.Art & RFID? (FR)
Nicolas Frespech is a French artist born in 1971. He has been working with the Web since 1996, and taught Net Art at Paul Valery University from 2002 to 2005. His various projects form a body of work that covers identity and its virtual and mercantile standardization, intimacy, the phenomenon of Webcams and telesurveillance, media, games and fiction.LiftCast interview Ida Daussy (FR)
Interview of Ida Daussy, a french woman TV star in Korea. A few words about her history in Korea, her career and her opinion about the country.Timo Arnall: "Making Things Visible"
A designer and researcher at Oslo School of Architecture, Timo Arnall offers here his perspective about networked objects and ubiquitous computing. His presentation, and the intriguing design examples he takes, highlights two phenomena. On the one hand, he describes how sensors and RFIDs can enable to "make things visible" as the title of his presentation expresses. On the other hand, he shows the importance of going beyond screen-based interactions.Globalism, Mobiles, & The Cloud
Juliana Rotich, an author, blogger and digital activist with Global Voices Online in Kenya, talks about citizen journalism in African countries. Starting from web examples, she then describes the value of mobile applications in this domain. Her presentation gives a broad overview of the issues at stake in mobile activism/journalism.Urban Mobs (FR)
Urban Mobs : how to visualize the cell phone activity in cities ? Stéphane Distinguin, CEO of Faber Novel, describes the results from "Urban Mobs". This project, conducted with Orange aimed at studying crowd communication activities and paint a “ popular emotion cartography through mobile phone tracking.The Future of Fake (FR)
Fake products are certainly an important trend from the last twenty years. Trendbüro analyst Jörg Jelden describes why fakes are so successful and more importantly what they do differently as well what brands can learn from the fake industry.The Twentieth Century was wrong (FR)
Lee Bryant describes to what extent we reach a new culture ecosystem echoes with old traditions of trade, business and socialisation while the Twentieth century was all about mass market and mass production.UNESCO to supervise Google Index?
Training manager at CLEO (Centre pour l'édition électronique ouverte). Editor and writer for Homo Numericus, a webmagazine about social aspects of ICT.From the Jurassic Era
From the Jurassic Era of the Internet to its Futures. IP protocol inventor Vinton Cerf, who is now Vice President and Internet Evangelist at Google gave the concluding talk at Lift 09. After a quick recap of the history of the Internet, he basically gives an enthusiastic tour of its current limits (bitrot, IP address shortage) as well projects about its evolution, such as interplanetary internet though satellites.Us Now: The relationship between social innovation and digital technologies
Filmmaker and anthropologist Documentariste et anthropoliste.From Political Protest to Social Intervention
Ilpyo Hong from the Hope Institute shows the role of new media in activism in the context of Korea. He starts with a history of the candlelight protest (a recent demonstration against US beef import in Korea) and then moved on to a discussion of Hope Institute and its platform for large-scale social activism. Unfortunately due to technical difficulties, this video was not completely translated in English so be sure to have your Korean dictionaries handy!Update on Wikimedia Foundation
Florence Devouard, who was the Chair of the Wikimedia Board till July 2008, gives a quick update of the situation at Wikipedia. She shows the recent evolution and initiative of the collaborative on-line encyclopedia.Update on Wikimedia Foundation (FR)
Florence Devouard, who was the Chair of the Wikimedia Board till July 2008, gives a quick update of the situation at Wikipedia. She shows the recent evolution and initiative of the collaborative on-line encyclopedia.Cameroon : Lies, mariage and the Internet (FR)
Yaoundé-based sociologist Baba Wamé gives a stunning overview of how the Web has been appropriated by cameroonian women. More specifically, he shows how email and IM have been turned into on-line dating tools. He then raise raise awareness on the dangers of such practices for the women of his country.Upcoming trends in mobile services
Takeshi Natsuno "Upcoming trends in mobile services" (Lift Asia 08 EN) Takeshi Natsuno, the father of the first, functioning, successful, large-scale wireless internet system, Japan's i-Mode described his perspective and trends on mobile services for the near future.Changing Things
Changing Things (2) Fab Labs, towards decentralized design and production of material products. Michael Shiloh is an engineer, hobbyist, researcher, artist, and educator. Michael creates by himself and collaborates with children and students of all ages and with other electro-mechanical artists, including San Francisco-based Survival Research Labs.Arimaz
At the swiss start-ups pitch presentation, Pierre Bureau form Arimaz shows Mydeskfriend, a small robot that can connect to the Internet, it can read messages and RSS feeds, and be a character in games.Memoires of a magnificent future
As the director of the Swiss museum of science-fiction, Patrick Gyger has access to a large variety of documentation concerning the past representation of the future. In his Lift09 talk, he revisits these visions and describes the reasons why they fail to materializeAnother kind of online survey
Daniel Kaplan, CEO of French think tank FING, discuss the results of an on-line survey which aimed at investigating the way people expose themselves online. Are we being too candid about ourselves when online? Are we as transparent as we pretend to be? What strategies do we follow in order to maximize the range and efficiency of our online social networks? And how do we select new online "friends"? Does online networking lower current social barriers?Memoires of a magnificent future (FR)
Memoires of a magnificent future: Flying cars and the shape of things to come. As the director of the Swiss museum of science-fiction, Patrick Gyger has access to a large variety of documentation concerning the past representation of the future. In his Lift09 talk, he revisits these visions and describes the reasons why they fail to materialize.What role can designers play? (FR)
What role can designers play in shaping our technological future? James Auger, from the Auger-Loizeau design studio, presents various examples and cases of critical and speculative design removed from the commercial standpoint. His projects in robotics, implants and mobile services, should be seen as provocative and discussion-generating pieces.Who has no knife may not eat pineapples (FR)
Who has no knife may not eat pineapples, an off-topic tour d'horizon on the literacy of cutting Felix Koch and Fabian Kalker share their insights about "cutting cultures" and how observing the usage of knives reveal interesting social trend of our society. They tackle for instance the aversion to risk or the loss of a certain food culture.LIFT takeaways (FR)
Philippe Lemoine is CEO of LaSer, a services company which develops its activity in Europe with 6000 collaborators. He is also involved in initiatives in 3 different areas: Social transformation through the "Modernity Action Forum"; Corporate transformation, by taking part in several boards ; And Technology, by chairing Fing, France's Next-generation Internet Foundation.LiftCast interview
Why you should come to the Lift Asia Conference? Few words and answers of Jean-Henry, reasons to come to Lift Asia Conference...
Living City
If your interested in buildings which can "talk" with each others, Yang Soo-In's presentation is spot on. His speech about the "living city" is about the sensors which disappear into the urban fabric and it allows building to communicate information about their local conditions to a network of other buildings. Yang’s work is very interesting as it shows how the city can be seen as a research lab.The role of design in sustainable development
Oriol Pascual from Enviu Innovation Lab in Rotterdam describes several projects and initiatives that show the role of design in the creation of innovative solutions for environmental or social issues. In particular he focuses on his studio's work with regards to new sources of electricity production such as the generation of electricity through a dance floor.Lift09 introduction
Laurent Haug, founder of the Lift Conference, opens the Lift09 conference and introduces the events' program.How the Web was Born (FR)
How the Web awas Born: Stories from a scribe Web veteran and CERN PR James Gillies tells us his perspective on the history of the Web. He shows the backstage vision from an insider's perspective of what used to be a "vague but exciting" idea that became the World Wide Web around the early 90s.Nicolas Anderlé Lift France 09 interview (FR)
Interviews series with Nicolas Anderlé @ Lift France 2009Changing Innovation
Changing Innovation – Innovating with the non-innovators. Marcos heads content development and coordinates the main working lines of Madrid's Medialab-Prado along with Laura Fernández. In spring of 2006 they started the project Interactivos?, a platform for developing projects through the collaboration of participants who come from different disciplinesConditional Future
Jean-Michel Cornu is chief Scientist at Fing (Next Generation Internet Foundation in France) and acts as an international consultant on Information Society and Technologies. He has published several books. Among them "Prospectic, new technologies, new thoughts" on new technologies such as Nanos, Biotechs, ICT, Neuro-sciences, Cognitives sciences.LiftCast interview
Hojun Song thinks kids will soon ask their parents to offer them satellites, and that an open source initiative could make it more affordable and realistic than you think. He is an artist and dreamer, and he might very well achieve his goal as early as next year, sending a satellite collecting data from the cosmos and transforming it into information artists could use back on earth. He will be speaking at Lift Asia in the "Networked objects, from wifi rabbits to ubiquitous cities" session alongside Rafi Haladjian, Adrian David Cheok and Julian Bleecker.From Robota to Homo Robotus
Bruno Bonnell is a legendary french entrepreneur, founder of Infogrames and former CEO of Atari . Today Bruno has launched a new venture in the robotic market: Robopolis. In his speech at Lift Asia 08 "From Robota to Homo Robotus" (with remarkable energy and great performance the morning after a legendary Karaoke Night ;) Bruno revises Asimov's laws of robotic and highlights the differences between the Asian and Western approach to robotics.Innovation VS product lifecycle
All The Content CEO Clément Charles questions the importance of product lifecycle in the context of innovation: Does product lifecycle kill innovation or it's a necessary process to fund research? What is the impact of open innovation on those lifecycle?The Mozilla Project
The Mozilla Project: Core Values of a 230 Million Person World Wide Social Network Chris Hofmann, from Mozilla how to combine the open-source values, strong communities, passion and an open approach for building a software such as Firefox.The role of design in sustainable development (FR)
The role of design in sustainable development Oriol Pascual from Enviu Innovation Lab in Rotterdam describes several projects and initiatives that show the role of design in the creation of innovative solutions for environmental or social issues. In particular he focuses on his studio's work with regards to new sources of electricity production such as the generation of electricity through a dance floor.Design Thinking (FR)
Fabio Sergio, Design and User experience strategist and creative director at frog design, focuses his presentation on Design Thinking and its role in creating habitable and desirable futures. He shows various examples to explain how people-centred design goes beyond usage or consumption and should be about culture and seeing people how people react to things within their own culture.Changing Innovation
Changing Innovation - The end of IT. In addition to 21 years culminating in a senior position in the BBC Euan has had five years of unparalleled experience learning how to make the most of this wired-up world of work and how businesses can prepare themselves for the challenges and the opportunities it represents.LiftCast interview Grégoire Furrer (FR)
Interview d'un participant suisse, Grégoire Furrer qui nous explique ce qu'il vient chercher dans cette édition Asiatique de Lift "Serious fun" Un thème tout trouvé pour le directeur du Festival du Rire de Montreux.Personal fabrication
Personal fabrication: what does it mean? What are the opportunities? Currently Amit Zoran is a PhD student in the Smart Cities Group, MIT Media Lab, working an several aspects of designing artifacts in mixed technological - cultural space. Amit graduated from Ben-Gurion University at Bear-Sheva, Israel, in 2003 with B.Sc. in Communication System Engineering. He worked as an image and audio processing engineer for five years, developing on a variety of signal processing projects. In 2003 Amit started a Master’s degree at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, Israel, which he graduated from in 2007. In 2008, Amit joined the MIT Media Lab, where he finished his Master's degree in 2009. For his thesis, Amit focused on hybrid object design, merging traditional crafted element with digital technologies.The Future of Social Media
Chang Kim, the CEO of TNC (Korea's leading provider of professional blog solutions) discusses the evolution of the social web by addressing four issues: the homepage evolution, the need for data portability, the difference between online/offline relationships and how content authoring is not an homogeneous skill.Considering how digital culture enables a multiplicity of knowledges
What would a diverse, complex world brain look like? Considering how digital culture enables a multiplicity of knowledges. Ramesh Srinivasan, an Assistant Professor at the University of California Los Angeles, speaks about the importance of cultural differences in knowledge production and technology design. Through various stories, he shows the differences in cultural appropriation and the inherent creativity of people in adpating technologies to the uses that benefit them best.Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet's takeaways
"NKM" is France's minister in charge of Forward Planning and the Development of the Digital Economy.Learning to play with Tomorrow (FR)
Anab Jain, who is an independent designer and film maker from India, talks about "design futurescaping", which is using design methods like storytelling, experience prototyping, making scenarios tangible, and talking to people on a daily basis, to inspire and influence prototypes for the near future.Changing Things
The Internet of Things is not what you think it is! Usman Haque has created responsive environments, interactive installations, digital interface devices and mass-participation performances.Changing Things
Alexandra is an industrial and interaction designer. She attended the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea where she met the other founders of Tinker.
Robots don't have to look like robots
Frederic Kaplan, a researcher and robot designer from the Swiss Institute of Technology (Lausanne) talks about the future of robots as part of our daily life. He shows different scenarios that exemplify how everyday objects can become robotic and to what extent the next generation of computer interfaces will be influenced by this trend. In this talk Frederic Kaplan also presents how computers, which used to exist in their own world, now live in our daily life.Enchanted Objects - How fiction foreshadows innovation
David Rose, who is a serial entrepreneur and a lecturer at MIT, shows how human beings have persistent needs and wishes that they carry through time. For each of these needs, he presents various prototypes and products to demonstrate how design can lead to "enchanted objects" by fulfilling them.Lifestyle Experiments
Lifestyle Experiments and the Crisis of Agency Working at the crossroads of contemporary art, science, and engineering, Natalie Jeremijenko shows various projects of hers related with environmental issues. Each of them exemplifies a peculiar aspect of her approach that aims at addressing the transformative potential of new technologies in unexpected ways.Globalism, Mobiles, and The Cloud (FR)
Juliana Rotich, an author, blogger and digital activist with Global Voices Online in Kenya, talks about citizen journalism in African countries. Starting from web examples, she then describes the value of mobile applications in this domain. Her presentation gives a broad overview of the issues at stake in mobile activism/journalism.Scientific fiction (FR)
The relationship between science-fiction and design is rich and pretty straight-forward, as explained by UK designer Matt Webb. Starting from examples of believable "scientific fiction", he describes how he implements this sort of thinking into a design process to create original prototypes.Generative and Future Open (FR)
Making sure the Web stays 'Generative' and Future Open”. Since January 2004 he has been the founder and chairman of Mozilla Europe, the European home of the Firefox Web browser.LiftCast interview Rafi Haladjian (FR)
Interview of Rafi Haladjian, the father of the RfiD Rabbit "Nabaztag" French version.Fab Labs network
CEO of Fab Lab Norway and the Fab Foundation. Fab labs provide widespread access to modern means for invention. They began as an outreach project from MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA). CBA assembled millions of dollars in machines for research in digital fabrication, ultimately aiming at developing programmable molecular assemblers that will be able to make almost anything. Fab labs fall between these extremes, comprising roughly fifty thousand dollars in equipment and materials that can be used today to do what will be possible with tomorrow's personal fabricators. Fab labs have spread from inner-city Boston to rural India, from South Africa to the North of Norway. Activities in fab labs range from technological empowerment to peer-to-peer project-based technical training to local problem-solving to small-scale high-tech business incubation to grass-roots research. Projects being developed and produced in fab labs include solar and wind-powered turbines, thin-client computers and wireless data networks, analytical instrumentation for agriculture and healthcare, custom housing, and rapid-prototyping of rapid-prototyping machines.Best of Lift Asia 08
Here is a recap video of Lift Asia 08 behind the scenes by Frame Inc. See the ambiance Lift portrays at Lift Asia 08 Conference. View a sumary of the event, from the speakers to the conference space, and the experience projects all made possible by the Jeju Government, Daum, WattWatt, Alpict and Art Center NABI.What role can designers play
What role can designers play in shaping our technological future? James Auger, from the Auger-Loizeau design studio, presents various examples and cases of critical and speculative design removed from the commercial standpoint. His projects in robotics, implants and mobile services, should be seen as provocative and discussion-generating pieces.Innovation VS product lifecycle (FR)
All The Content CEO Clément Charles questions the importance of product lifecycle in the context of innovation: Does product lifecycle kill innovation or it's a necessary process to fund research? What is the impact of open innovation on those lifecycle?Who has no knife may not eat pineapples
Who has no knife may not eat pineapples, an off-topic tour d'horizon on the literacy of cutting Felix Koch and Fabian Kalker share their insights about "cutting cultures" and how observing the usage of knives reveal interesting social trend of our society. They tackle for instance the aversion to risk or the loss of a certain food culture.Lift09 introduction (FR)
Laurent Haug, fondateur des conférences Lift présente le programme de ce premier jour de l'édition 2009 de Lift à Genève.
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